Steve planted about five hundred tulip bulbs when it was beginning to get cold out. We’ve been taking tulip walks around the yard to chart their progress, and this week they began to bloom almost all at once. I love that I married someone who never seems to have enough vases.

Tulips don’t return every year like I had thought. Some do, but the climate in Michigan doesn’t let them hibernate enough. Some people dig out their tulip bulbs and put them in a dry, dark place and then replant them each year. I’m not sure if we’ll do that, but knowing that we might only get to appreciate them this week makes them all the more precious.

April 28th, 2009 | Category: house, photograph | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL